At 5:08, on the battleship King Kong, the lookout soldier suddenly pointed to the northwest and screamed: "What is that?"
Ijuin Matsuharu, who had just returned to the captain's room, immediately ran out after hearing this. He held the railing and looked in the direction of the lookout soldiers' fingers. He saw a few black spots and his eyelids jumped wildly.
This time, Lan Huanshan was piloting Xiang Yong’s Baiji, numbered 1113, and Xiang Yong served as his co-pilot. After the last failure, all the students in the Qiongzhou Flying Brigade held their breath, and in In their view, this mission is a great opportunity for them to wash away their shame.
When the Qiongzhou Flying Brigade was training, they had flown as far as the Dongsha Islands. For this reason, they were appointed by Xue Changkong as the pioneers. A total of four Baijis were organized into two groups. According to the coordinates provided by the Dahuajiao radar station, they flew all the way. Flying toward the southeast,
Long before being discovered by the Kongo lookout, Blue Volcano discovered the Nagasaki supply fleet, "Xue Tou, I saw a group of enemy ships."
"Report the position, slow down and wait for the main force to get closer."
"The specific location is..."
Man Jiang was in charge of commanding another two-plane formation, and his wingman was piloted by Chen Shaoyao. The two were talking on other channels at this time. Man Jiang said: "Shaoyao, let me see the flights of the past few days later." I can make some progress during the training camp.”
"Deputy Chief, just look at it, I will make a deep impression on everyone."
"Okay, I'll wait and see."
The Nagasaki supply fleet has begun to adjust its formation. Amidst the shrill battle sirens, fourteen warships of various types serving as escorts began to spread out to protect the surroundings of the fleet, while thirteen supply ships and armed merchant ships moved closer to the center.
In about ten minutes, the 0008 piloted by Xue Changkong flew into the sky about two kilometers away from the fleet. Under his command, the other twenty air fortresses lined up in three long snake formations, and then carried out the first round of bombing. The seven flying fortresses on the mission accelerated and flew out, lowering their altitude while approaching the enemy ship.
When the altitude dropped to about 3,000 meters and the enemy ship group was still 800 meters away from the horizontal distance, the enemy ship's anti-aircraft firepower opened. Amidst the "bang bang" explosion, one anti-control shell after another was fired in front of the fleet. It exploded below, and puffs of smoke were blown away by the wind, forming a smoke screen area.
"It can be executed." Following Xue Changkong's order, the seven bombers slowed down and flew over the enemy ships. Then, bombs with sharp whistling sounds crashed into the sea below where the enemy ships were.
When the Sky Fortress cluster started bombing, on the other side, eight temporarily modified fish bombers were hiding behind the Baiji cluster like ghosts, ready for a sneak attack.
Facing the aerial fortress cluster that dropped bombs at an altitude of three thousand meters, the powerful anti-aircraft firepower of the supply fleet frigate group was magnificent but had no practical effect, and the record they achieved was only a volley explosion. Just three bombs,
The detection capability of the Dahuajiao radar station is actually very rough. Its biggest drawback is that it cannot accurately detect the tonnage and other data of enemy ships. This makes the long-distance sneak attack that Ouyang Yun and Tielin Fei have painstakingly prepared eclipse. Quite a few, and without torpedoes, a special weapon for killing large ships, this battle might not even be able to sink a single ship.
Twenty-one flying fortresses carried more than 100 tons of bombs and ultimately only sank three ships. One of them was a frigate with a displacement of only more than 3,000 tons. This unlucky frigate was hit by three bombs in succession. The ammunition compartment was exploded and was blown into two pieces and sank into the sea. The other two sunk were fuel supply ships, including an armed merchant ship with a displacement of 16,000 tons. This merchant ship It was hit by a bomb on the port side. This bomb with a certain armor-breaking effect directly tore a hole more than three meters long on the port side, and then detonated the fuel stored in the hull. After a loud noise, the ship broke into pieces. Two pieces were immediately swallowed up by the sea water.
After the Aerial Fortress Group completed its bombing mission, all but the 0008 were about to return home. Seeing that such a density of bombing only harvested three enemy ships, many students couldn't help but find it difficult to accept: "Master, you miscalculated, no. Know if you are losing money."
More than one hundred tons of bombs cost a lot of money, but they only sank three ships. This really made them feel unwilling.
Xue Changkong also did not expect that the enemy ships were so strong. After carefully checking the bombing results, he changed the battle plan formulated before departure and asked the white-fin dolphin group to give up attacking the armed frigates and instead attack the supply ships with all its strength. "It cannot be sunk by bombing." We're going to be paralyzed by the bombing. If that doesn't work, we'll kill all the Japs above." He shouted on the public channel,
The pilots who fly the Alba understand this very well.
Thick bombs fell, and in the end only three of their own ships were sunk. This made Ijuin feel more at ease, "The Chinese people miscalculated. Don't they know that only torpedoes can effectively kill such large ships?" ." He thought so, looked up at the sky, and secretly prayed in his heart: God Amaterasu bless, there are no torpedo planes in the China fighter planes.
One after another, the dolphins roared down under dense anti-aircraft fire. Most of them first dropped the two bombs they carried, and then began to straf the crew members on the supply ship. The Nagasaki supply fleet had more anti-aircraft firepower than the Taiwan supply fleet. It was at least five times stronger. In less than three minutes, a baiji dolphin was shot down.
What no one expected was that the fall of the Baiji dolphin would actually cause a huge fire.
Two fuel supply ships that sank one after another leaked a large amount of fuel. Miraculously, the fuel did not catch fire due to the explosion of the loading ship. However, as the Baiji hit the water full of fuel, it exploded. , centered on the sea surface of the store, a fire spread out like a prairie fire, and soon completely ignited all the sea areas of the Nagasaki Supply Fleet,
Aviation gasoline burned extremely violently, and the thick smoke it produced greatly affected the vision of the Japanese on the Japanese ship, and at the same time provided excellent cover for the eight modified torpedo planes.
Without Xue Changkong's orders, the eight torpedo planes broke through the Japanese frigate's air defense firepower network one after another and pounced towards the location of the supply ship.
The tonnage of the Nagasaki supply fleet ships was completely beyond Xue Changkong's expectation. Seeing that it was impossible to inflict a devastating blow, Xue Changkong made a prompt decision and decided to devote all his firepower and bombs to the battle against the supply ships. And the facts proved that, His decision was correct,
Eight modified torpedo attack aircraft, each carrying two torpedoes, sixteen torpedoes were thrown into the sea water, and then "swam" towards their respective targets amid the exclamations of the little devils.
As nine loud noises sounded, ten of the sixteen torpedoes hit the target, one of which misfired, and the other nine successfully exploded. Five of the ten target ships were hit in key parts, below the side line. The big one was blown open, and then flooded and sank. Four of the other ships were not hit by a single torpedo, and another one managed to survive because only one cabin was flooded.